Ko Ngati Te Arawa te iwi Ko Ray toku papa Ko Charlene toku mama Ko Manuhiri raua ko Te Korowhiti aku tuahine Ko Mohi-Tarau taku tungane Ko Heretaunga toku kainga Ko Riverslea toku kura Ko Nga Kaari taku ingoa No reira tena koutou tena koutou tena koutou katoa
My Goals 2016
Feb
Mar/Updated in May
Term 3 (Extended in Term 4)
Term 4 2016
Term 4 was full of learning and activities.We had lots of things going on at Riverslea and around. We had an awesome Duffy Role Model Assembly with Mary Kippenberger and Peter Charlton Jones. We also had the School Cross Country and also did lots of Play based learning to try to learn to share and cooperate and work together. We went to the A and P Show as well as visited Barnadoes Preschool and the Riverslea Community Preschool, who also visited us. We loved Skipping and Jump Rope for Heart. The trip to Napier and the Aquarium was fun. We had the School Prizegiving and made up our own song “The 12 Days of Riverslea Christmas”\ We are all looking forward to Xmas and Next year (Mrs B )
I have reached my goal for Reading and have gone up 7 levels in reading this year. I am at Level 11 which is still below National Standard. I am at Stage 3 Maths which is at National Standard and have gone up from Stage 2 to the end of Stage 3 this year. I have also gone up a level in Writing and am just at National Standard.
Nga Kaari
August/Sept
We are still learning and being involved in lots of activities. Our Inquiry has been about the Rio Olympics 2016. We learnt a lot about different countries and different sports. We each had our own country at the Olympics. Harmony’s country USA came first with the most medals. They got 116 medals ( 43gold, 37 silver, 36 bronze). Te Orihana came 2nd with Great Britain who got 66 medals. Kadyn had NZ who got 18 medals (4gold, 9 silver and 5 bronze). We also watched some of the ParaOlympics which made the students aware of different disabilities and how people use ways to overcome them to win medals eg Blind cyclists and runners and swimmers with only 1 leg. We had our own school Olympics which the students loved. They also got medals. Participation for the tabloids and Gold, Silver ,Bronze for the age races. It was well supported by whanau. All students have made great progress, some being a year above in Reading and 6 months above in Writing and Maths. This term Room 1 has also been involved in a NZ wide programme for Junior classes called #NZReadAloud. We connect with other classes around NZ (10 in all) from Auckland to Dunedin and share our ideas, art work, writing etc on a blog. It is all related to a common chosen book that we are all reading to our class. It is called A Booming in the Night By Ben Brown , a NZ author. As usual we are busy with Fitness and Kiwi Can skills and games. This Term we are learning about Cooperation (Whanaungatanga) with Matua Rocky and Whaea Cass. We have had ‘Getting started’ again T3 with a council funded programme on fitness and coordination skills. We have had Whaea Toni and Matua Julian this term. Grandparent’s reading with the Rotary Grandparents every Friday has continued. Some of us go and read to them for 15 minutes each. They help sponser our Duffy books. We had a Role Model Assembly with Mary Kippenberger (storyteller) and Peter Charlton-Jones (musician) and got our Duffy books for the Term.We also had 2 Role Models form Karamu High come to talk to use about being leaders. We were lucky to have Mr Kevin a Preschool Teacher volunteer time 2 days a week for most of the term. He fixed all of our school bikes for us. The children are loving being out on the bike track again. Whaea Monique (Student Teacher from last year) also volunteers in the classes 2 days a week. It is great to have her skills and empathy with the students. Another highlight for the students was a visit from 2 Magpies Chris Eaton and Matt Garland. They talked to the students about being role models and then took them for games. They loved the Touch Rugby. It has been another awesome term for Miharo (Room1).
School Olympics. Getting started activities.
The Magpies Rugby team.Playing Touch Rugby. My Nga Toi tile
I like all the different things we have been doing at school. I have gone up another 2 levels in Reading (Level 9) . I still love Reading.I still need to start bringing my notebook every day and learn my spelling. I am getting really good at Maths now too.I am doing well on Stage 3. I liked the Magpies and the Duffy Assembly and the School Olympics (Nga Kaari)
Nga Kaari has been making some good progress in Reading, Writing and Maths. She is a steady reader and is still developing her word solving skills and comprehension skills well. She is continuing to make steady progress in Maths and Writing. She enjoys and joins in all activities inside and outside the classroom. She likes using Reading apps on the ipads. Next we want to continue to further extend her Reading progress. She is still below National Standard but is progressing steadily now. Our goal is still to make accelerated progress and close the gap even further.. Also to consolidate and extend her written language skills. She has moved from below to just at National Standard. In Maths we are still aiming to reach Stage 4 by the end of the year. She is working well at Stage 3 and counting on,doing addition over 20. (Mrs B)
June/July
June and July were also busy months with 2 weeks holiday in July for the end of Term 2. We are all still making awesome progress in Reading, Maths, Story-writing and Inquiry. Some students have gone up several levels in Reading and they, and others, moved up stages in Maths and Writing as well. In Inquiry we are learning about the Olympic Games in Rio in Term 3. We loved our Inquiry about Flight and learnt a lot. We always have some great questions to find out about in our wonderings. We have fun finding out the information. As usual we are busy with Fitness and Kiwi Can skills and games with Whaea Cass and Matua Rocky. We also have Kapa Haka with Whaea Manaea and Matua Justin on Thursday mornings. We like Grandparent’s reading with the Rotary Grandparents every Friday. We just had a Duffy Theatre performance about Time Travel and got our Duffy books for the Term. It was great fun. We also had lots of learning with our class buddies and our school buddies too. We had Irene Van Dyke a famous NZ Netballer come to speak to us. She was very tall (6ft 3 inches). She gave us all a bag from Netball Hawkes Bay and some balls for our PE gear. Paora came from the Council to help us set up a new worm garden. We got to hold the worms. They were slimy. We also had Todd and Nathan from the Army come and teach us how to march and do push ups. We are Miharo too.We are awesome
My school buddy. Duffy Theatre
Inquiry Flight. Worm Garden.
We have been doing lots of things at school. I have gone up another level in Reading (Level 7) and I am going on Level 8 in a few weeks. I still love Reading.I need to start bringing my notebook every week and learn my spelling. I am getting really good at Maths now too.I am on Stage 3. I liked the worms.They were slippery and crawled over my hands. The Duffy Theatre was fun. I liked my new book. (Nga Kaari)
Nga Kaari has been making some good progress in Reading, Writing and Maths. She is a steady reader and is developing her word solving skills and comprehension skills well. She goes to a Teacher's aide (Miss Hall) for extra Literacy skills. She is also making steady progress in Maths and Writing. She has gone up a level in each. She enjoys and joins in all activities inside and outside the classroom. She likes using Reading apps on the ipads. Next we want to further extend her Reading progress. She was well below National Standard but has moved to below now. Our goal is to make accelerated progress and close the gap even further.. Also to consolidate and extend her written language skills. She has moved from below to at National Standard. In Maths to Stage 4 by the end of the year.She has moved to Stage 3 now. (Mrs B)
April/May
We are all making awesome progress in Reading, Maths, Story-writing and Inquiry too. In Inquiry we are learning about Flight and how it effects people, animals and insects. We have some great questions to find out about in our wonderings. They are up on our Inquiry wall for everyone to keep looking at and thinking about. As usual we are busy with Fitness and Kiwi Can skills and games. This Term we are learning about Resilience (Taikaha) with Matua Rocky and Whaea Cass. We love Kapa Haka with Whaea Manaea and Matua Justin on Thursday mornings for 40 mins. We are learning lots of waiata. We like Grandparent’s reading with the Rotary Grandparents every Friday. Some of us go and read to them for 15 mins each still. They help sponser our Duffy books. We had a Role Model Assembly and got our Duffy books for the Term. We also had a visit from Harold and the Life Education Truck with Whaea Anne. We all like Harold. We love school. It is awesome and we are Miharo too.
Learning to write words.Learning about my buddy.
In Life Education Truck.Learning about Time on the ipads.
Kapa Haka
It is fun at school.I am learning lots of things. I have gone up 2 levels in Reading and I am on Level 5 now. I am getting good at Maths.We have been learning about Time. I like writing stories.I use my imagination and try to spell all my own words. I liked it when Harold came. (Nga Kaari)
I have continuing to encourage Nga Kaari in Reading and she has made some very good progress. Her word solving skills and story comprehension have really improved. She is still making good progress in Writing and very good progress in Maths. She is keen to learn new things and always tries her best. I will continue to give her lots of praise and encouragement to develop this independence and progress. (Mrs B)
March
We had an amazing March. Lots of learning and exciting activities. We even re-wrote our Goals as many students had already achieved them in one month. We continued with Getting Started ( Fitness /coordination programme), Kiwi Can (social skills & games), Patu(Maori fitness & sports programme) Grandparent’s reading(Rotary),Kapa Haka(Junior & Senior) and even found time to have a Dress up day as Heroes or Heroines. The students in Room 1 are loving learning and making great progress. We are Miharo.We rock. We show Aroha, Kaha and Mana.
Kapa Haka. We look at and listen to our Buddies.
Getting Started.
I am getting better at Maths.I can count and use counters to help me add up. I do Reading and Writing with Mrs Bennett too.I am getting better at those too. I like Kapa Haka.It is lots of fun.I go to Early Words with Mrs Donaldson (Nga Kaari)
Nga Kaari is beginning to take an interest in her school work and is starting to progress steadily She is at Level 4 for Reading, 1B for Writing, (but not the beginning of the Level), and Stage 2 for Maths, I will continue to give her lots of encouragement and praise to build up her self confidence in learning. I will ensure this by giving her lots of 1 to 1 to assist her to move through the levels in Reading, Writing and Maths. She also goes to Mrs Donaldson, a voluntary Teacher's aide for Early words phonics. This is to help build up her Reading and Writing vocabulary. Nga Kaari's speech has improved a lot too recently.This helps with her hearing the correct sounds in words. (Mrs B)
February
February 2016. What a fabulous start to 2016. Room 1, (Miharo-because we are awesome), started learning straight away. No-one had forgotten their Reading and all came back to school at the same level. Two groups have moved up to the next level in just 3 weeks. We are all awesome at Maths and Story-writing and Inquiry too. In Inquiry we are learning about, “What Fairy Tales can teach us. "We love learning about all the stories and doing some of them with finger puppets. We are retelling them to our buddies or the class. We even did a play to the rest of the school with the finger puppets on Goldilocks and the 3 Bears, as well as a wall story. On Tuesdays we have Matua Jackson from Patu come and visit us. He takes us for Fitness and games for 40 minutes. We also have Getting Started again with Whaea Toni for ½ hour every Wed afternoon and Fri morning for ½ hour. We learn co-ordination and fitness. We love Kapa Haka with Whaea Manaea and Matua Justin on Thursday mornings for 40 mins. On Wednesday morning we have Kiwi Can with Whaea Adele and Matua Rocky for ½ hour. We learn about Respect for ourselves, others and property. We like Grandparent’s reading with the Rotary Grandparents every Friday. Some of us go and read to them for 15 mins each. They help sponser our Duffy books. We love school. It is awesome and we are Miharo too.
Patu (Fitness) with Matua Jackson. Kiwi Can with Whaea Cass and Matua Rocky.
Getting Started with Whaea Toni
Our Inquiry on Fairy Tales. Nga Kaari as a zombie.
I like doing all the things we are doing this year. I running in the relays with Matua Jackson.Our team kept winning. I think my mask is cool. I am a zombie. We wrote stories about it.It looks scary too. I am Reading at Level 3 now. I am starting to learn words.(Nga Kaari)
A small class is helping the learning in Reading Maths and Writing as the students are making excellent progress. We started Reading on the 2nd day of Term 1 and already Nga Kaari has gone up to a new level. She is below National Standard but is starting to 'move', learn vocab and search for meaning this year. She is also making progress in her Maths and Story-writing. She goes to a Taecher's aide for an Early words programme and some alphabet work.(Mrs B)
2015
My Goals 2015
1. Learn to read stories up to Level 7. 2. Learn to count up to 50. 3. Learn to draw a tiger.
Nov/Dec
Inquiry, ICT Visitors and Visiting.
A busy couple of months with lots of action and learning in Room 1. The Firemen visited us to teach us about fire safety. We know to get down, get low, get out fast. We also learnt lots when the Mobile Learning Centre came to Riverslea School. We used Robots,3D google cardboard,3D printers and ipads and apple computers.It was fun, we learnt lots and all had turns at using everything. We have been finding out all sorts of interesting things about space and the Solar system and planets in our Inquiry T4.We visited the Planetarium as well. The Hakinakina Athletics and Tabloids were fun. We also had a swim there. We had some fun end of year activities too like visiting and playing at the new playground at Windsor park. We also had a Wet and Wild fun day. We loved our Xmas glasses, our Secret Santas and all the candy canes and chocolate Santas we kept getting. Lots of us achieved our goals in learning. 2015 was a great year. Miharo is awesome. Merry Xmas everyone.
I like learning on the ipads and computers with others. I liked making connections with Mayfair Kindy.We had fun there.
Wet and Wild day. Hakinakina Sports
I learnt about robots and 3D and all sorts of apps when the caravan came with the computers and ipads in it.
I also had fun at the Mayfair Kindy and watched the big boys do the Kapa Haka and the Mau rakau.
I was good at playing the games at Hakinakina Sports.The Wet and Wild day was lots of fun too.
I can draw a tiger now. I am really good at Art, Mrs Bennett says so.
I am starting to learn my words and write stories and learn to read now.
I can count and do some adding and take aways by myself too.
(Nga Kaari)
October
Trips learning and fun.
We have had lots of learning and fun in Room 1 again this month. We have still been learning lots with our buddies and enjoying using the ipads for learning new things. We have learnt about Augumented Reality . That is when the pictures we look at with the ipad stand out and move. I like the alphabet animals and the dinosaurs They are cool. We have been involved in Nga Toi. We are making panels to put on the bike container. We showed our wheku masks at Assembly. Everyone liked them. We have been having a focus for Inquiry on ‘The Solar System’. We are learning lots of things about space and planets. It is really interesting. We are still making great progress in Reading, Writing and Maths. Some of us have gone up 12 levels in Reading this year already. Mr Twinn came to visit us again the other day. He showed us lots of photos of his trip to Scotland and England. We liked the castles and big mountain that he climbed (Ben Nevis) best of all. Our two trips were awesome. Look at the photos on our wikis and the school Facebook. The Omnigym was great .We learnt how to do lots of activities and use lots of equipment like bars, mats, benches, tramps, ropes and beams. We all loved the Fun trip to the Skatepark. We had fun on scooters and skateboards and on the playground. Room 1 is Miharo and we are awesome.
Wheku masks at assembly.Pizza for end of Term 3 winning house Tane.
Mr Twinn visited and Jump Jam
Omnigym
Skatepark.
I liked winning the pizza, the Omnigym and the playground at the Skatepark best.(Nga Kaari)
The children continued to learn both in books and on the ipads. They were involved in making art panels for the Bike shed in Nga Toi. They also started Jump Jam for Fitness every morning as a whole school. The trip to the Omnigym and Skatepark helped reinforce physical activity skills and fun (Mrs B)
September
Lots to learn and do.
In September we have still been learning and having fun in Room 1. We enjoy using the ipads for learning new things especially on SkoolBo. Hemara got a trophy, for the school, from them for getting 10,000 points. PMP is nearly finished. We have learnt lots of new activities and skills. We have finished our Inquiry “All About Me,” on ourselves and our whanau and friends and our healthy bodies. We know lots of things about our Inquiry now. We got some great results for reading and writing and Maths this term and have made some excellent progress in those areas. The best fun was the Hakinakina Cross country. We got 1st (Van) 2nd (Boyden) and 3rd (Hemara) in the Year 2 boys and 2nd (Hohepa) in the Year 1 Boys. The girls ran well too. The Duffy Role Model Assembly was great with Rob Mokoraka. We also got our Duffy books which were fabulous. Room 1 is Miharo and we are awesome.
The Hakinakina Cross Country and PMP inside on a wet day.
Reading my new Duffy Books. Learning 'All About Me', in our Inquiry.
I am learning lots on the ipads.I am good Skoolbo now. I like PMP and running too. I tried hard at the Cross Country. I am reading harder books now at Level 2. I can write some of my own words and tell my stories too. (Nga Kaari)
I like all the things that the students get involved in. Was very proud of the tamariki at the Hakinakina sports. PMP has stopped because of the price. I am going to hook into some training so that next year I can present the programme independently. ipad app learning is going well. I introduce an app and then let the students try it out themselves. Often they can come back 15 minutes later and show me something that I did not know. Nga Kaari is at Level 2 in Reading now. She is making slow and steady progress. Mum and Dad listening to her read at home.I have applied to get RTLB help for Nga Kaari with her learning. Nga Kaari can write some words now and is going to Earlywords with Teachers aide Jan Donaldson to learn more and help build up her reading and writing vocabulary. She is at Stage 1 Maths.(Mrs B)
July/August
Visitors and learning
July and August have been great months for learning and fun in Room 1. We have been learning lots with our buddies and enjoying using the ipads for learning new things as well as fun activities like PMP. We had a Sports day with the Hastings City Council and leaders came such as Henare OKeefe (Duffy Books)and Paddy Stafford (Tamatea Rugby Club) as well as a policewoman and other helpers. They cooked us a sausage sizzle for lunch and we played lots of great games too. Paddy also donated some Rugby balls for us to use. We have been involved in Nga Toi. We loved making our wheku masks. They look cool and scary. We have been having a focus for Inquiry on ourselves and our whanau and friends and our healthy bodies this term. Hearty from the Heart foundation came to visit our school and ran around the track with the children. We were lucky as Mrs Donaldson and her daughter Michelle raised money for new sports equipment for the Junior school. We love all the new gear. We are becoming amazing at reading and writing and Maths this term and have made some great progress in that area. Room 1 is Miharo and we are awesome.
I love playing sports and doing PMP with my friends.
I like my wheku mask. The skittles are the best in our new sports gear.
I liked all the Sports.We had fun. We played lots of different games. I like the skittle game best. I like PMP too. Its fun too. My mask is bright. (Nga Kaari)
We had lots of fun activities again in July and August. I spent these months supporting the children in all the activities such as sports days and Hearty's visit. We had lots of fun making wheku masks. They looked amazing. The children wrote stories about them and put them up on the wall. The tamariki are learning a lot on the ipads to help their progress in reading, writing and Maths. (Mrs Bennett)
June
Lots of fun connections and activities.
June was another amazing month in Room 1 (Miharo) We watched the Bike container being shifted by a huge crane. We are going to put Art (Nga Toi) all over it and make it a feature of our school. We were involved in the Preschool opening. Room 1 helped make pizzas for the kai and sung waiata after the speeches. We had the Duffy Theatre visit and got our Duffy books. We learnt Te Reo Kori with Sport HB and went in a school Te Reo Kori tournament. We went in a Hakinakina Rippa Rugby tournament with other schools. We won lots of games. We Skyped Mr Twinn at his Dad’s place in Scotland. We all asked him questions and showed him pictures. He sent us photos too. It was 10.30pm at night over there and 9.30am in the morning in NZ. June was another awesome month in Room 1, Miharo.
At the Preschool Opening.We sang Tutira Mai. The Duffy Theatre was cool.
I liked doing the string games (Te Reo Kori). We won lots of games in Rippa Rugby.
We skyped Mr Twinn in Scotland.
I liked the Duffy Theatre. They made us laugh.I got my new Duffy book. We were good at Rippa Rugby . We won most of the games. The best thing was Skyping Mr Twinn.He showed us outside his house in Scotland. I liked the string games too. (Nga Kaari)
We had lots of fun activities this month.I spent the month supporting the children in all the activities and helping organise many of them such as kai for the preschool opening(Our class made pizzas), The Duffy Theatre,The Hakinakina Rippa Rugby between 4 other schools and Skyping Mr Twinn (our ex Student Teacher) in Scotland (Mrs Bennett)
May
May saw Mr Twinn, Student Teacher and Matua Torp as part of Room 1. We had lots of adventures and learning. We were involved in lots of fun things. We shared some of our experiences through ,Write about it and Book Creator ipad apps. Some of those connections, which is what our Inquiry is about this term, were our trip to Mr McFarlane’s farm where we saw sheep, cows ,bulls and a helicopter. Seeing Whaea Anne and Harold the giraffe in the Life Education truck taught us about not bullying and being nice to others. We had an artist Matua Brandon Blair who came to school to talk about that and get us to draw posters too. We learnt about and practised using our WITS (Walk away, Ignore, Tell someone eg a teacher and make a Statement eg ‘Stop it ,I don’t like it.”) from Mrs Bennett. Some students made connections with Matua Manu and did Nga Toi, making kowhaiwhai patterns on rocks. We made other connections with the Preschool, Mrs Donaldson, the librarian, our whanau, Mr Twinn, Matua Torp, our buddies from other classes eg Buddy reading and sharing in oral language in R1, and Greg Murphy a formula 1 racing car driver (Whaea Monique-student teacher in R2s husband), who came to school to speak to us and show us all his racing gear. Hohepa tried on his $5,000 helmet. We also had a school party to say goodbye to Mr Twinn and Whaea Monique who had been student teachers at our school for 7 weeks. It was sad to see them go.We hope they come back and visit us. One of our biggest connections was using Skype. We connected to Mr Twinn’s Dad in Scotland. It was 10.30pm at night over there and 9.30am in the morning in NZ. He showed us the model planes that he flies and that we had seen on videos on youtube. He also showed us a picture of Mr Twinn as a little boy. We showed him the planes that we had made and sung him our new Riverslea song andTutira Mai Nga Iwi. We liked it when the circus came to visit us too. The performers could do all sorts of tricks. May was an awesome month in Room 1, Miharo.
Farm visit, ipads and connections
Making connections with Mr MacFarlane at the farm and the bulls.
In the Life Education truck with Whaea Anne learning about being nice to others and not bullying and healthy food.
Using ipad apps. Writing about the Farm on Book Creator and a story on Write about it with my buddy Whiore.
I liked watching the circus at our school.
I liked the farm and the skatepark. I am learning to count and know some alphabet. I am learning colours and can write and add some numbers. I liked making planes and finger puppets too. I liked the circus at school. (Nga Kaari)
Nga Kaari is starting to develop self confidence in class. She is also is beginning to attempt to write some words in her story. Nga Kaari is now pointing 1 to 1 to words in reading. She can count up to 10 and do some simple addition up to 5 with support. She goes toMrs Donaldson for alphabet letter name and sound reinforcement 4 times a week. She works with me in a group of 3 in reading. She also works with me in Maths and storywriting. Nga Kaari has made a little progress but is working at below National Standards.
(Mrs B)
April
We have started studying Matariki this term and our focus is on Connections. We are going to have lots of fun making connections everywhere. Next week we are going to a farm where Mr Twinn, the student teacher in R1 used to work. We will make connections with the Farmer Mr McFarlane and the animals. We have made connections already with the Riverslea Preschool and with Toni Ben and Graham who come to help us do PMP activities for fitness and coordination. We also made connections with Wendy and Bridget from the Hastings council. We picked up Litter around our school. It was cool meeting Jocelyn Cowan who gave our school a certificate for being Sunsmart. We also had Whaea Korina our Health Nurse talking about Healthy Foods at Assembly. We will make lots of other connections this term. We know what reading levels we are at and have been doing Geometry and Time in Maths. We know o’clock and half past. We are all improving in our reading. We are learning to count and do addition in Maths now. We are still learning to write FABULOUS stories. We liked Easter as we made Easter eggs and had lots of chocolate. We also made a Comic Life about our Geometry shapes that we found outside around the school and learnt how to make a Puppet Pal presentation on the ipads. Matua Torp is now working in our class too helping all the tamariki. (Mrs B)
I likedmaking Easter eggs at Easter time. I painted a face on mine. It was colourful. I am getting better at reading. I am nearly on Level 3 now. I want to write my own stories in writing I am getting help to spell some of my own words.. My goal is to be good at writing my own words in my stories. I like Art and drawing pictures. I liked balancing on the round things in PMP. (Nga Kaari)
I want to further extend Nga Kaari in reading. She is working in a group of 2 so that I can target her individual needs. She is making slow but steady progress. I also want to help Nga Kaari spell some of her own words in story-writing Next we will also develop her counting in Mathematics as well. (Mrs B)
Maths, PMP,Connections.
Getting a certificate at T1 Prizegiving assembly for learning my alphabet. Making Easter eggs.
Balancing at PMP. Picking up Litter around the school with Mrs Bennett and Whaea Wendy from the Council. My Comic Life with Whiore showing the shapes we found outside the classroom.
March
We have had another busy but fun month in March , with lots of different things happening. We went to the Hakinakina swimming sports at the Aquatic centre on a bus. We swam with Whare Tapere, Bridge Pa and Mangateretere. We had fun and loved all the games and free swim. In the Seniors Exzodia and Mohi-Tarau got lots of certificates. We got some new lego in the class and had lots of fun building all sorts of things. We also went on a class trip as we are studying Turangawaewae. We went to the Transfer Station at Flaxmere. We looked at all the Recycling and the rubbish. We helped Mrs Versey sort out some recycling and put them in the right bins. We saw all the rubbish and know what happens to it now. Afterwards we went to the Hastings skatepark and playground. We enjoyed it there going up and down all the ramps. We brought our scooters and had lunch there too. Mrs Versey also came to school and showed us how to make recycled paper. It came out grey. We also had Mr Mac and Doug the Digger come to Riverslea again for another Role Model Assembly for Duffy.We got our Duffy books and saw Mr Macs big truck. We had the Police, Firemen and Ambulance people come and visit us too. That was really cool. (Mrs B & R1)
I liked the Transfer Station.I saw all the rubbish. We made paper in class and learnt about recycling too. I liked Mr Mac's truck. I got my Duffy books. I had fun on the scooter. I liked the swimming too. (Nga Kaari)
Recycling, Swimming and Learning
I liked the swimming. I made a dinosaur with the lego.
I did recycling. I liked the skate park
I liked the fire engine and Mr Mac's big truck.
February
What a busy but fun start to the school year Room 1 has had. We have had fun improving our skills on the bike track. That is a goal of many in the class. We have had lots of testing to see what progress we have made and where to next. We have set our 3 goals and are trying to achieve them. We are studying Turangawaewae and focussing on our environment. Room 1, Miharo, are looking at Recycling. We know what reading levels we are at and can now do graphs in Maths. We are learning to count and do addition in Maths now. We are also learning to write FABULOUS stories. Below are pictures of the bike track and / or us on ipads learning Literacy and Numeracy on our new app SkoolBo. Also a picture of the graphs that we can do and a story that we each wrote. Miharo is cool. Miharo is awesome. (Mrs B)
I can ride on the bike track now. I still use trainer wheels most of the time. I like SkoolBo on the ipad and Eggy words. I am getting faster at running. I am learning to copy lots of words in my stories. I am at Level 2 in Reading. I am learning to count in Maths. (Nga Kaari)
Next goals for Nga Kaari are to write some of her own words in story writing. Nga Kaari is counting up to 16 most times. She needs to extend this to reach her goal of 30 in Maths. With lots of positive reinforcement and praise and modelling she will improve in those areas. She is making steady progress and enjoys using the ipads to learn. She is really good at Art and loves drawing animals. ( Mrs B)
Nga Kaari on the bike track. Her picture of Batwoman.
Nga Kaari's animal bar graph in Maths. Nga Kaari's story on Bat woman.
Table of Contents
2016
Pepeha
Ko Ngati Te Arawa te iwiKo Ray toku papa
Ko Charlene toku mama
Ko Manuhiri raua ko Te Korowhiti aku tuahine
Ko Mohi-Tarau taku tungane
Ko Heretaunga toku kainga
Ko Riverslea toku kura
Ko Nga Kaari taku ingoa
No reira
tena koutou
tena koutou
tena koutou
katoa
My Goals 2016
Feb
Mar/Updated in May
Term 3 (Extended in Term 4)
Term 4 2016
Term 4 was full of learning and activities.We had lots of things going on at Riverslea and around.We had an awesome Duffy Role Model Assembly with Mary Kippenberger and Peter Charlton Jones.
We also had the School Cross Country and also did lots of Play based learning
to try to learn to share and cooperate and work together.
We went to the A and P Show as well as visited Barnadoes Preschool
and the Riverslea Community Preschool, who also visited us.
We loved Skipping and Jump Rope for Heart.
The trip to Napier and the Aquarium was fun.
We had the School Prizegiving and made up our own song “The 12 Days of Riverslea Christmas”\
We are all looking forward to Xmas and Next year
(Mrs B )
I have reached my goal for Reading and have gone up 7 levels in reading this year.
I am at Level 11 which is still below National Standard.
I am at Stage 3 Maths which is at National Standard
and have gone up from Stage 2 to the end of Stage 3 this year.
I have also gone up a level in Writing and am just at National Standard.
Nga Kaari
August/Sept
We are still learning and being involved in lots of activities. Our Inquiry has been about the Rio Olympics 2016.We learnt a lot about different countries and different sports. We each had our own country at the Olympics.
Harmony’s country USA came first with the most medals. They got 116 medals ( 43gold, 37 silver, 36 bronze).
Te Orihana came 2nd with Great Britain who got 66 medals. Kadyn had NZ who got 18 medals (4gold, 9 silver and 5 bronze).
We also watched some of the ParaOlympics which made the students aware of different disabilities
and how people use ways to overcome them to win medals eg Blind cyclists and runners and swimmers with only 1 leg.
We had our own school Olympics which the students loved. They also got medals. Participation for the tabloids
and Gold, Silver ,Bronze for the age races. It was well supported by whanau.
All students have made great progress, some being a year above in Reading and 6 months above in Writing and Maths.
This term Room 1 has also been involved in a NZ wide programme for Junior classes called #NZReadAloud.
We connect with other classes around NZ (10 in all) from Auckland to Dunedin and share our ideas, art work,
writing etc on a blog. It is all related to a common chosen book that we are all reading to our class.
It is called A Booming in the Night By Ben Brown , a NZ author.
As usual we are busy with Fitness and Kiwi Can skills and games.
This Term we are learning about Cooperation (Whanaungatanga) with Matua Rocky and Whaea Cass.
We have had ‘Getting started’ again T3 with a council funded programme on fitness and coordination skills.
We have had Whaea Toni and Matua Julian this term.
Grandparent’s reading with the Rotary Grandparents every Friday has continued.
Some of us go and read to them for 15 minutes each. They help sponser our Duffy books.
We had a Role Model Assembly with Mary Kippenberger (storyteller) and Peter Charlton-Jones (musician)
and got our Duffy books for the Term.We also had 2 Role Models form Karamu High come to talk to use about being leaders.
We were lucky to have Mr Kevin a Preschool Teacher volunteer time 2 days a week for most of the term.
He fixed all of our school bikes for us. The children are loving being out on the bike track again.
Whaea Monique (Student Teacher from last year) also volunteers in the classes 2 days a week.
It is great to have her skills and empathy with the students.
Another highlight for the students was a visit from 2 Magpies Chris Eaton and Matt Garland.
They talked to the students about being role models and then took them for games.
They loved the Touch Rugby.
It has been another awesome term for Miharo (Room1).
School Olympics. Getting started activities.
The Magpies Rugby team.Playing Touch Rugby. My Nga Toi tileI like all the different things we have been doing at school.
I have gone up another 2 levels in Reading (Level 9) .
I still love Reading.I still need to start bringing my notebook every day and learn my spelling.
I am getting really good at Maths now too.I am doing well on Stage 3.
I liked the Magpies and the Duffy Assembly and the School Olympics
(Nga Kaari)
Nga Kaari has been making some good progress in Reading, Writing and Maths.
She is a steady reader and is still developing her word solving skills and
comprehension skills well.
She is continuing to make steady progress in Maths and Writing.
She enjoys and joins in all activities inside and outside the classroom.
She likes using Reading apps on the ipads.
Next we want to continue to further extend her Reading progress.
She is still below National Standard but is progressing steadily now.
Our goal is still to make accelerated progress and close the gap even further..
Also to consolidate and extend her written language skills. She has moved from
below to just at National Standard.
In Maths we are still aiming to reach Stage 4 by the end of the year.
She is working well at Stage 3 and counting on,doing addition over 20.
(Mrs B)
June/July
June and July were also busy months with 2 weeks holiday in July for the end of Term 2.We are all still making awesome progress in Reading, Maths, Story-writing and Inquiry.
Some students have gone up several levels in Reading
and they, and others, moved up stages in Maths and Writing as well.
In Inquiry we are learning about the Olympic Games in Rio in Term 3.
We loved our Inquiry about Flight and learnt a lot.
We always have some great questions to find out about in our wonderings.
We have fun finding out the information.
As usual we are busy with Fitness and Kiwi Can skills and games with Whaea Cass and Matua Rocky.
We also have Kapa Haka with Whaea Manaea and Matua Justin on Thursday mornings.
We like Grandparent’s reading with the Rotary Grandparents every Friday.
We just had a Duffy Theatre performance about Time Travel and got our Duffy books for the Term. It was great fun.
We also had lots of learning with our class buddies and our school buddies too.
We had Irene Van Dyke a famous NZ Netballer come to speak to us. She was very tall (6ft 3 inches).
She gave us all a bag from Netball Hawkes Bay and some balls for our PE gear.
Paora came from the Council to help us set up a new worm garden. We got to hold the worms. They were slimy.
We also had Todd and Nathan from the Army come and teach us how to march and do push ups.
We are Miharo too.We are awesome
My school buddy. Duffy Theatre
Inquiry Flight. Worm Garden.
We have been doing lots of things at school.
I have gone up another level in Reading (Level 7) and I am going on Level 8 in a few weeks.
I still love Reading.I need to start bringing my notebook every week and learn my spelling.
I am getting really good at Maths now too.I am on Stage 3.
I liked the worms.They were slippery and crawled over my hands.
The Duffy Theatre was fun. I liked my new book.
(Nga Kaari)
Nga Kaari has been making some good progress in Reading, Writing and Maths.
She is a steady reader and is developing her word solving skills and
comprehension skills well.
She goes to a Teacher's aide (Miss Hall) for extra Literacy skills.
She is also making steady progress in Maths and Writing. She has gone up a level in each.
She enjoys and joins in all activities inside and outside the classroom.
She likes using Reading apps on the ipads.
Next we want to further extend her Reading progress. She was well below National Standard
but has moved to below now.
Our goal is to make accelerated progress and close the gap even further..
Also to consolidate and extend her written language skills. She has moved from
below to at National Standard.
In Maths to Stage 4 by the end of the year.She has moved to Stage 3 now.
(Mrs B)
April/May
We are all making awesome progress in Reading, Maths, Story-writing and Inquiry too.In Inquiry we are learning about Flight and how it effects people, animals and insects.
We have some great questions to find out about in our wonderings.
They are up on our Inquiry wall for everyone to keep looking at and thinking about.
As usual we are busy with Fitness and Kiwi Can skills and games.
This Term we are learning about Resilience (Taikaha) with Matua Rocky and Whaea Cass.
We love Kapa Haka with Whaea Manaea and Matua Justin on Thursday mornings for 40 mins.
We are learning lots of waiata.
We like Grandparent’s reading with the Rotary Grandparents every Friday.
Some of us go and read to them for 15 mins each still.
They help sponser our Duffy books.
We had a Role Model Assembly and got our Duffy books for the Term.
We also had a visit from Harold and the Life Education Truck with Whaea Anne.
We all like Harold.
We love school. It is awesome and we are Miharo too.
Learning to write words.Learning about my buddy.
In Life Education Truck.Learning about Time on the ipads.
Kapa Haka
It is fun at school.I am learning lots of things.
I have gone up 2 levels in Reading and I am on Level 5 now.
I am getting good at Maths.We have been learning about Time.
I like writing stories.I use my imagination and try to spell all my own words.
I liked it when Harold came. (Nga Kaari)
I have continuing to encourage Nga Kaari in Reading and she has made some very good progress.
Her word solving skills and story comprehension have really improved.
She is still making good progress in Writing and very good progress in Maths.
She is keen to learn new things and always tries her best.
I will continue to give her lots of praise and encouragement to develop this independence and progress.
(Mrs B)
March
We had an amazing March. Lots of learning and exciting activities.We even re-wrote our Goals as many students had already achieved
them in one month.
We continued with Getting Started ( Fitness /coordination programme),
Kiwi Can (social skills & games), Patu(Maori fitness & sports programme)
Grandparent’s reading(Rotary),Kapa Haka(Junior & Senior)
and even found time to have a Dress up day as Heroes or Heroines.
The students in Room 1 are loving learning and making great progress.
We are Miharo.We rock. We show Aroha, Kaha and Mana.
Kapa Haka. We look at and listen to our Buddies.
Getting Started.
I am getting better at Maths.I can count and use counters to help me add up.
I do Reading and Writing with Mrs Bennett too.I am getting better at those too.
I like Kapa Haka.It is lots of fun.I go to Early Words with Mrs Donaldson
(Nga Kaari)
Nga Kaari is beginning to take an interest in her school work and is starting to progress steadily
She is at Level 4 for Reading, 1B for Writing, (but not the beginning of the Level), and Stage 2 for Maths,
I will continue to give her lots of encouragement and praise to build up her self confidence in learning.
I will ensure this by giving her lots of 1 to 1 to assist her to move through the levels in Reading, Writing and Maths.
She also goes to Mrs Donaldson, a voluntary Teacher's aide for Early words phonics.
This is to help build up her Reading and Writing vocabulary.
Nga Kaari's speech has improved a lot too recently.This helps with her hearing the correct sounds in words.
(Mrs B)
February
February 2016.What a fabulous start to 2016. Room 1, (Miharo-because we are awesome),
started learning straight away.
No-one had forgotten their Reading and all came back to school at the same level.
Two groups have moved up to the next level in just 3 weeks.
We are all awesome at Maths and Story-writing and Inquiry too.
In Inquiry we are learning about, “What Fairy Tales can teach us.
"We love learning about all the stories and doing some of them with finger puppets.
We are retelling them to our buddies or the class.
We even did a play to the rest of the school with the finger puppets on
Goldilocks and the 3 Bears, as well as a wall story.
On Tuesdays we have Matua Jackson from Patu come and visit us.
He takes us for Fitness and games for 40 minutes.
We also have Getting Started again with Whaea Toni for ½ hour
every Wed afternoon and Fri morning for ½ hour.
We learn co-ordination and fitness.
We love Kapa Haka with Whaea Manaea and Matua Justin on Thursday mornings for 40 mins.
On Wednesday morning we have Kiwi Can with Whaea Adele and Matua Rocky for ½ hour.
We learn about Respect for ourselves, others and property.
We like Grandparent’s reading with the Rotary Grandparents every Friday.
Some of us go and read to them for 15 mins each. They help sponser our Duffy books.
We love school. It is awesome and we are Miharo too.
Patu (Fitness) with Matua Jackson. Kiwi Can with Whaea Cass and Matua Rocky.
Getting Started with Whaea Toni
Our Inquiry on Fairy Tales. Nga Kaari as a zombie.
I like doing all the things we are doing this year.
I running in the relays with Matua Jackson.Our team kept winning.
I think my mask is cool. I am a zombie.
We wrote stories about it.It looks scary too.
I am Reading at Level 3 now.
I am starting to learn words.(Nga Kaari)
A small class is helping the learning in Reading Maths and Writing
as the students are making excellent progress.
We started Reading on the 2nd day of Term 1
and already Nga Kaari has gone up to a new level.
She is below National Standard but is starting to 'move', learn vocab and
search for meaning this year.
She is also making progress in her Maths and Story-writing.
She goes to a Taecher's aide for an Early words programme and some alphabet work.(Mrs B)
2015
My Goals 2015
1. Learn to read stories up to Level 7.2. Learn to count up to 50.
3. Learn to draw a tiger.
Nov/Dec
Inquiry, ICT Visitors and Visiting.
A busy couple of months with lots of action and learning in Room 1.
The Firemen visited us to teach us about fire safety.
We know to get down, get low, get out fast.
We also learnt lots when the Mobile Learning Centre came to Riverslea School.
We used Robots,3D google cardboard,3D printers and ipads
and apple computers.It was fun, we learnt lots and all had turns at using everything.
We have been finding out all sorts of interesting things about space
and the Solar system and planets in our Inquiry T4.We visited the Planetarium as well.
The Hakinakina Athletics and Tabloids were fun. We also had a swim there.
We had some fun end of year activities too like visiting
and playing at the new playground at Windsor park.
We also had a Wet and Wild fun day.
We loved our Xmas glasses, our Secret Santas
and all the candy canes and chocolate Santas we kept getting.
Lots of us achieved our goals in learning.
2015 was a great year.
Miharo is awesome.
Merry Xmas everyone.
I like learning on the ipads and computers with others. I liked making connections with Mayfair Kindy.We had fun there.
Wet and Wild day. Hakinakina Sports
I learnt about robots and 3D and all sorts of apps when the caravan came with the computers and ipads in it.
I also had fun at the Mayfair Kindy and watched the big boys do the Kapa Haka and the Mau rakau.
I was good at playing the games at Hakinakina Sports.The Wet and Wild day was lots of fun too.
I can draw a tiger now. I am really good at Art, Mrs Bennett says so.
I am starting to learn my words and write stories and learn to read now.
I can count and do some adding and take aways by myself too.
(Nga Kaari)
October
Trips learning and fun.
We have had lots of learning and fun in Room 1 again this month.
We have still been learning lots with our buddies
and enjoying using the ipads for learning new things.
We have learnt about Augumented Reality .
That is when the pictures we look at with the ipad stand out and move.
I like the alphabet animals and the dinosaurs They are cool.
We have been involved in Nga Toi. We are making panels to put on the bike container.
We showed our wheku masks at Assembly. Everyone liked them.
We have been having a focus for Inquiry on ‘The Solar System’.
We are learning lots of things about space and planets. It is really interesting.
We are still making great progress in Reading, Writing and Maths.
Some of us have gone up 12 levels in Reading this year already.
Mr Twinn came to visit us again the other day.
He showed us lots of photos of his trip to Scotland and England.
We liked the castles and big mountain that he climbed (Ben Nevis) best of all.
Our two trips were awesome. Look at the photos on our wikis and the school Facebook.
The Omnigym was great .We learnt how to do lots of activities
and use lots of equipment like bars, mats, benches, tramps, ropes and beams.
We all loved the Fun trip to the Skatepark.
We had fun on scooters and skateboards and on the playground.
Room 1 is Miharo and we are awesome.
Wheku masks at assembly.Pizza for end of Term 3 winning house Tane.
Mr Twinn visited and Jump Jam
Omnigym
Skatepark.
I liked winning the pizza, the Omnigym and the playground at the Skatepark best.(Nga Kaari)
The children continued to learn both in books and on the ipads.
They were involved in making art panels for the Bike shed in Nga Toi.
They also started Jump Jam for Fitness every morning as a whole school.
The trip to the Omnigym and Skatepark helped reinforce physical activity skills and fun
(Mrs B)
September
Lots to learn and do.
In September we have still been learning and having fun in Room 1.We enjoy using the ipads for learning new things especially on SkoolBo.
Hemara got a trophy, for the school, from them for getting 10,000 points.
PMP is nearly finished. We have learnt lots of new activities and skills.
We have finished our Inquiry “All About Me,” on ourselves and our whanau
and friends and our healthy bodies. We know lots of things about our Inquiry now.
We got some great results for reading and writing and Maths this term
and have made some excellent progress in those areas.
The best fun was the Hakinakina Cross country. We got 1st (Van) 2nd (Boyden) and 3rd (Hemara)
in the Year 2 boys and 2nd (Hohepa) in the Year 1 Boys. The girls ran well too.
The Duffy Role Model Assembly was great with Rob Mokoraka.
We also got our Duffy books which were fabulous.
Room 1 is Miharo and we are awesome.
The Hakinakina Cross Country and PMP inside on a wet day.
Reading my new Duffy Books. Learning 'All About Me', in our Inquiry.
I am learning lots on the ipads.I am good Skoolbo now.
I like PMP and running too.
I tried hard at the Cross Country.
I am reading harder books now at Level 2.
I can write some of my own words and tell my stories too.
(Nga Kaari)
I like all the things that the students get involved in.
Was very proud of the tamariki at the Hakinakina sports.
PMP has stopped because of the price.
I am going to hook into some training so that next year I can present
the programme independently.
ipad app learning is going well.
I introduce an app and then let the students try it out themselves.
Often they can come back 15 minutes later and show me something that I did not know.
Nga Kaari is at Level 2 in Reading now. She is making slow and steady progress.
Mum and Dad listening to her read at home.I have applied to get RTLB help for Nga Kaari with her learning.
Nga Kaari can write some words now and is going to Earlywords with Teachers aide Jan Donaldson
to learn more and help build up her reading and writing vocabulary. She is at Stage 1 Maths.(Mrs B)
July/August
Visitors and learningJuly and August have been great months for learning and fun in Room 1.
We have been learning lots with our buddies and enjoying using the ipads
for learning new things as well as fun activities like PMP.
We had a Sports day with the Hastings City Council and leaders came
such as Henare OKeefe (Duffy Books)and Paddy Stafford (Tamatea Rugby Club)
as well as a policewoman and other helpers. They cooked us a sausage sizzle for lunch
and we played lots of great games too. Paddy also donated some Rugby balls for us to use.
We have been involved in Nga Toi. We loved making our wheku masks. They look cool and scary.
We have been having a focus for Inquiry on ourselves and our whanau and friends
and our healthy bodies this term. Hearty from the Heart foundation came to visit our school
and ran around the track with the children.
We were lucky as Mrs Donaldson and her daughter Michelle raised money for new sports equipment
for the Junior school. We love all the new gear.
We are becoming amazing at reading and writing and Maths this term
and have made some great progress in that area.
Room 1 is Miharo and we are awesome.
I love playing sports and doing PMP with my friends.
I like my wheku mask. The skittles are the best in our new sports gear.
I liked all the Sports.We had fun.
We played lots of different games.
I like the skittle game best.
I like PMP too. Its fun too.
My mask is bright.
(Nga Kaari)
We had lots of fun activities again in July and August.
I spent these months supporting the children in all the activities
such as sports days and Hearty's visit.
We had lots of fun making wheku masks. They looked amazing.
The children wrote stories about them and put them up on the wall.
The tamariki are learning a lot on the ipads to help their progress in reading, writing and Maths.
(Mrs Bennett)
June
Lots of fun connections and activities.
June was another amazing month in Room 1 (Miharo)
We watched the Bike container being shifted by a huge crane.
We are going to put Art (Nga Toi) all over it and make it a feature of our school.
We were involved in the Preschool opening.
Room 1 helped make pizzas for the kai and sung waiata after the speeches.
We had the Duffy Theatre visit and got our Duffy books.
We learnt Te Reo Kori with Sport HB and went in a school Te Reo Kori tournament.
We went in a Hakinakina Rippa Rugby tournament with other schools. We won lots of games.
We Skyped Mr Twinn at his Dad’s place in Scotland.
We all asked him questions and showed him pictures. He sent us photos too.
It was 10.30pm at night over there and 9.30am in the morning in NZ.
June was another awesome month in Room 1, Miharo.
At the Preschool Opening.We sang Tutira Mai. The Duffy Theatre was cool.
I liked doing the string games (Te Reo Kori). We won lots of games in Rippa Rugby.
We skyped Mr Twinn in Scotland.
I liked the Duffy Theatre. They made us laugh.I got my new Duffy book.
We were good at Rippa Rugby . We won most of the games.
The best thing was Skyping Mr Twinn.He showed us outside his house in Scotland.
I liked the string games too.
(Nga Kaari)
We had lots of fun activities this month.I spent the month supporting the children in all the activities
and helping organise many of them such as kai for the preschool opening(Our class made pizzas),
The Duffy Theatre,The Hakinakina Rippa Rugby between 4 other schools and Skyping Mr Twinn
(our ex Student Teacher) in Scotland
(Mrs Bennett)
May
May saw Mr Twinn, Student Teacher and Matua Torp as part of Room 1.We had lots of adventures and learning. We were involved in lots of fun things.
We shared some of our experiences through ,Write about it and Book Creator ipad apps.
Some of those connections, which is what our Inquiry is about this term,
were our trip to Mr McFarlane’s farm where we saw sheep, cows ,bulls and a helicopter.
Seeing Whaea Anne and Harold the giraffe in the Life Education truck taught us
about not bullying and being nice to others.
We had an artist Matua Brandon Blair who came to school to talk about that and get us to draw posters too.
We learnt about and practised using our WITS (Walk away, Ignore, Tell someone eg a teacher
and make a Statement eg ‘Stop it ,I don’t like it.”) from Mrs Bennett.
Some students made connections with Matua Manu and did Nga Toi, making kowhaiwhai patterns on rocks.
We made other connections with the Preschool, Mrs Donaldson, the librarian, our whanau,
Mr Twinn, Matua Torp, our buddies from other classes eg Buddy reading and sharing in oral language in R1,
and Greg Murphy a formula 1 racing car driver (Whaea Monique-student teacher in R2s husband),
who came to school to speak to us and show us all his racing gear. Hohepa tried on his $5,000 helmet.
We also had a school party to say goodbye to Mr Twinn
and Whaea Monique who had been student teachers at our school for 7 weeks.
It was sad to see them go.We hope they come back and visit us.
One of our biggest connections was using Skype. We connected to Mr Twinn’s Dad in Scotland.
It was 10.30pm at night over there and 9.30am in the morning in NZ.
He showed us the model planes that he flies and that we had seen on videos on youtube.
He also showed us a picture of Mr Twinn as a little boy.
We showed him the planes that we had made and sung him our new Riverslea song and Tutira Mai Nga Iwi.
We liked it when the circus came to visit us too. The performers could do all sorts of tricks.
May was an awesome month in Room 1, Miharo.
Farm visit, ipads and connections
Making connections with Mr MacFarlane at the farm and the bulls.
In the Life Education truck with Whaea Anne learning about
being nice to others and not bullying and healthy food.
Using ipad apps. Writing about the Farm on Book Creator and a story on Write about it with my buddy Whiore.
I liked watching the circus at our school.
I liked the farm and the skatepark.
I am learning to count and know some alphabet.
I am learning colours and can write and add some numbers.
I liked making planes and finger puppets too.
I liked the circus at school.
(Nga Kaari)
Nga Kaari is starting to develop self confidence in class.
She is also is beginning to attempt to write some words in her story.
Nga Kaari is now pointing 1 to 1 to words in reading.
She can count up to 10 and do some simple addition up to 5 with support.
She goes to Mrs Donaldson for alphabet letter name and sound reinforcement 4 times a week.
She works with me in a group of 3 in reading.
She also works with me in Maths and storywriting.
Nga Kaari has made a little progress but is working at below National Standards.
(Mrs B)
April
We have started studying Matariki this term and our focus is on Connections.We are going to have lots of fun making connections everywhere.
Next week we are going to a farm where Mr Twinn, the student teacher in R1 used to work.
We will make connections with the Farmer Mr McFarlane and the animals.
We have made connections already with the Riverslea Preschool
and with Toni Ben and Graham who come to help us do PMP activities for fitness and coordination.
We also made connections with Wendy and Bridget from the Hastings council.
We picked up Litter around our school.
It was cool meeting Jocelyn Cowan who gave our school a certificate for being Sunsmart.
We also had Whaea Korina our Health Nurse talking about Healthy Foods at Assembly.
We will make lots of other connections this term.
We know what reading levels we are at and have been doing Geometry and Time in Maths.
We know o’clock and half past.
We are all improving in our reading.
We are learning to count and do addition in Maths now.
We are still learning to write FABULOUS stories.
We liked Easter as we made Easter eggs and had lots of chocolate.
We also made a Comic Life about our Geometry shapes that we found outside around the school
and learnt how to make a Puppet Pal presentation on the ipads.
Matua Torp is now working in our class too helping all the tamariki.
(Mrs B)
I liked making Easter eggs at Easter time.
I painted a face on mine.
It was colourful.
I am getting better at reading.
I am nearly on Level 3 now.
I want to write my own stories in writing
I am getting help to spell some of my own words..
My goal is to be good at writing my own words in my stories.
I like Art and drawing pictures.
I liked balancing on the round things in PMP.
(Nga Kaari)
I want to further extend Nga Kaari in reading.
She is working in a group of 2 so that I can target her individual needs.
She is making slow but steady progress.
I also want to help Nga Kaari spell some of her own words in story-writing
Next we will also develop her counting in Mathematics as well.
(Mrs B)
Maths, PMP,Connections.
Getting a certificate at T1 Prizegiving assembly for learning my alphabet. Making Easter eggs.
Balancing at PMP. Picking up Litter around the school with Mrs Bennett and Whaea Wendy from the Council.
My Comic Life with Whiore showing the shapes we found outside the classroom.
March
We have had another busy but fun month in March , with lots of different things happening.We went to the Hakinakina swimming sports at the Aquatic centre on a bus.
We swam with Whare Tapere, Bridge Pa and Mangateretere.
We had fun and loved all the games and free swim.
In the Seniors Exzodia and Mohi-Tarau got lots of certificates.
We got some new lego in the class and had lots of fun building all sorts of things.
We also went on a class trip as we are studying Turangawaewae.
We went to the Transfer Station at Flaxmere. We looked at all the Recycling and the rubbish.
We helped Mrs Versey sort out some recycling and put them in the right bins.
We saw all the rubbish and know what happens to it now.
Afterwards we went to the Hastings skatepark and playground.
We enjoyed it there going up and down all the ramps. We brought our scooters and had lunch there too.
Mrs Versey also came to school and showed us how to make recycled paper. It came out grey.
We also had Mr Mac and Doug the Digger come to Riverslea again
for another Role Model Assembly for Duffy.We got our Duffy books and saw Mr Macs big truck.
We had the Police, Firemen and Ambulance people come and visit us too. That was really cool.
(Mrs B & R1)
I liked the Transfer Station.I saw all the rubbish.
We made paper in class and learnt about recycling too.
I liked Mr Mac's truck.
I got my Duffy books.
I had fun on the scooter.
I liked the swimming too. (Nga Kaari)
Recycling, Swimming and Learning
I liked the swimming. I made a dinosaur with the lego.
I did recycling. I liked the skate park
I liked the fire engine and Mr Mac's big truck.
February
What a busy but fun start to the school year Room 1 has had.We have had fun improving our skills on the bike track.
That is a goal of many in the class.
We have had lots of testing to see what progress we have made and where to next.
We have set our 3 goals and are trying to achieve them.
We are studying Turangawaewae and focussing on our environment.
Room 1, Miharo, are looking at Recycling.
We know what reading levels we are at and can now do graphs in Maths.
We are learning to count and do addition in Maths now.
We are also learning to write FABULOUS stories.
Below are pictures of the bike track and / or us on ipads learning Literacy and Numeracy on our new app SkoolBo.
Also a picture of the graphs that we can do and a story that we each wrote.
Miharo is cool.
Miharo is awesome. (Mrs B)
I can ride on the bike track now.
I still use trainer wheels most of the time.
I like SkoolBo on the ipad and Eggy words.
I am getting faster at running.
I am learning to copy lots of words in my stories.
I am at Level 2 in Reading.
I am learning to count in Maths. (Nga Kaari)
Next goals for Nga Kaari are to write some of her own words in story writing.
Nga Kaari is counting up to 16 most times. She needs to extend this to reach her goal of 30 in Maths.
With lots of positive reinforcement and praise and modelling she will improve in those areas.
She is making steady progress and enjoys using the ipads to learn.
She is really good at Art and loves drawing animals.
( Mrs B)
Nga Kaari on the bike track. Her picture of Batwoman.
Nga Kaari's animal bar graph in Maths. Nga Kaari's story on Bat woman.